The Impact of Cafeteria Religion on Political Engagement | Brookings Institution

America’s religious diversity is important not solely, or even primarily, because of demography, but because of ideas. The politically significant change in America’s religious landscape is not that we are growing more religiously diverse as a people, but more specifically that our religious public square—the parameters and content of our public religious conversations—is more diverse than ever. Today, it seems, everything is spiritual, yet little is sacred. There is little that is unworthy of an opinion, yet even fewer issues are deemed deserving of moral conviction.http://www.brookings.edu/blogs/fixgov/posts/2014/05/08-faith-equality-cafeteria-religion-and-political-engagement-wear